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Maverick

Season 5 1961 - 1962
TV-PG

  • 1961-09-17T04:00:00Z on ABC
  • 1h
  • 10h 50m (13 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Comedy, Western
Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart, and from that point on, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. They would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. More often than not, their consciences trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intensely ethical. When Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, Roger Moore was added to the cast as their cousin Beau Maverick. Robert Colbert appeared later in the fourth season as a third Maverick brother, Brent Maverick. No more than two of the series leads ever appeared together in the same episode, and usually only one.

13 episodes

Season Premiere

1961-09-17T04:00:00Z

5x01 Dade City Dodge

Season Premiere

5x01 Dade City Dodge

  • 1961-09-17T04:00:00Z50m

Bart tries to track down Pearly Gates, a smooth con man who cheated him out of $5000.

1961-10-01T04:00:00Z

5x02 The Art Lovers

5x02 The Art Lovers

  • 1961-10-01T04:00:00Z50m

When investors put the squeeze on railroad owner Paul Sutton, Bart tries to help by dealing with them directly — in a friendly card game.

1961-10-08T04:00:00Z

5x03 The Golden Fleecing

5x03 The Golden Fleecing

  • 1961-10-08T04:00:00Z50m

Bart forsakes the poker table for the stock market — and finds himself trying to bluff wealthy Loftus Jaggers and his glamorous daughter (Paula Raymond).

1961-11-12T05:00:00Z

5x04 Three Queens Full

5x04 Three Queens Full

  • 1961-11-12T05:00:00Z50m

Bart must either face two years in jail or chaperone three brides to their intendeds — the sons of wealthy Joe Wheelwright (Jim Backus).

1961-11-26T05:00:00Z

5x05 A Technical Error

5x05 A Technical Error

  • 1961-11-26T05:00:00Z50m

Bart feels like a million when he wins a bank in a poker game. But unlucky Maverick soon learns the truth: the bank's broke — and so is he.

1962-01-07T05:00:00Z

5x06 Poker Face

5x06 Poker Face

  • 1962-01-07T05:00:00Z50m

Bart's latest poker adventure has him playing for a full house: the lives of his fellow stagecoach passengers.

1962-02-11T05:00:00Z

5x07 Mr. Muldoon's Partner

5x07 Mr. Muldoon's Partner

  • 1962-02-11T05:00:00Z50m

After being granted a wish by a "leprechaun," Bart faces a pot of trouble: he must be either jailed, murdered or married.

1962-03-04T05:00:00Z

5x08 Epitaph for a Gambler

5x08 Epitaph for a Gambler

  • 1962-03-04T05:00:00Z50m

Bart, waiting to collect on a $10,000 IOU, makes an uncomfortable observation: murder may be the pay-off in a gambler's life.

1962-03-11T05:00:00Z

5x09 The Maverick Report

5x09 The Maverick Report

  • 1962-03-11T05:00:00Z50m

Crusading newspaper publisher Bart? The publisher Bart won the rag from is assassinated and a corrupt U.S. Senator files a $100,000 libel suit against the Chronicle. Luckily, Bart's pal Doc Holiday is in town for a dentists' convention and owes Bart $2000. When Doc brags "I have enough collateral to raise the dead!", Bart feels no compunction in selling ½ the headache to Doc. The senator and his sinister political boss are Ivy Leaguers, so the suave Philadelphia dentist/hired gun will come in handy.

1962-04-01T05:00:00Z

5x10 Marshal Maverick

5x10 Marshal Maverick

  • 1962-04-01T05:00:00Z50m

Bart is closer to tears than laughter when he is forced to battle the funniest and fastest gun in the West.

1962-04-08T05:00:00Z

5x11 The Troubled Heir

5x11 The Troubled Heir

  • 1962-04-08T05:00:00Z50m

Life is anything but heaven when Bart meets Pearly Gates and his girl, who steal Maverick's poker winnings so they can be married.

1962-04-15T05:00:00Z

5x12 The Money Machine

5x12 The Money Machine

  • 1962-04-15T05:00:00Z50m

A money-making machine costs Bart a bundle. His cousin (Kathy Bennett) has just bought one with the $10,000 he lent her.

Season Finale

1962-04-22T05:00:00Z

5x13 One of Our Trains is Missing

Season Finale

5x13 One of Our Trains is Missing

  • 1962-04-22T05:00:00Z50m

While trying to get a young girl's romance back on the right track, Bart gets involved in a train robbery to end all train robberies.

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